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Re: Qbasic, XP, parallel port

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From: Rod Speed
Date: Sat, 06 Mar 2004 02:07
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Fritz Oppliger <fritzo_two_@direcway.com> wrote in message news:c9de6a6270b641b06ebce60d0f338cd6@news.teranews.com...
> Rod Speed <rod_speed@yahoo.com> wrote

> jeez guys
> I must say I have fond memories of being able to POKE a location
> on my Commodore64, and have a pin on the output port respond.

Sure, and you can still do that now with PICAXEs most obviously.

> I can see that WinXP is a little beyond that.

Yep, if you want to be able to bit twiddle on ports with a
decent multitasking OS, it has to be done the right way.

There is no reason why that cant be provided in a decent
modern interactive Basic on a decent modern OS.

It isnt that hard to do even with VBA with an OCX etc.

Both of those approaches are readily available.
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Subject: Re: Qbasic, XP, parallel port
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